KY Amish Farmer Jailed over a Salve Label; the FDA Wants Him Jailed for Life

A few years ago, the FDA came after Sam for labeling crimes — Sam said his salves could help certain maladies and that’s a big FDA no-no. If you make what the FDA says are “medical claims” then that qualifies your product as a “drug” which gives the FDA the authority (according to the FDA) to require that you do millions of dollars worth of testing to prove that your product does indeed do what the label claims. Or you can change your labels and take off any “medical claims.”